Copilot for Home windows goes by means of a redesign to make Microsoft’s AI assistant simpler to entry and use. At present obtainable by means of a sidebar panel, Copilot will quickly develop into an everyday resizable and movable Home windows app, Microsoft revealed in a weblog publish on Wednesday.
After the transformation, you will set off Copilot by means of an icon in the course of the Taskbar. Since will probably be an everyday Home windows app, you’ll transfer, resize, and snap its window to extra successfully use it and multitask with different home windows on the display screen.
After you click on the icon, Copilot at the moment seems as a static and unmovable sidebar that is a wrestle to navigate and juggle amid open apps and home windows. By default, in the event you click on wherever else on the display screen, the sidebar disappears. The one methods you’ll be able to carry out are to alter the width of the sidebar and present it facet by facet with one other window so it stays seen.
“To combine extra seamlessly into on a regular basis workflows and ship AI-powered help in a extra handy method, we’re evolving Copilot in Home windows right into a standalone software,” Microsoft stated in its weblog publish. “With this modification, customers of Copilot will get the advantages of a conventional app expertise akin to resizing, snapping, and transferring the window.”
Shoppers utilizing Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft unveiled earlier this week at its Construct convention, will have the ability to launch Copilot with a single click on of the Copilot key on their keyboard. Plus, Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers will nonetheless have the ability to keep separate “internet” and “work” tabs to raised defend their knowledge.
Microsoft did not give a particular ETA for the brand new Copilot for Home windows app’s availability. Within the weblog publish, the corporate stated solely that it is taking a phased and measured method to this rollout. Certainly, the modifications are already popping up within the newest construct, Home windows 11 Insider 26080, obtainable within the Canary channel.
“We’re starting to roll out an up to date Copilot in Home windows expertise that provides the flexibility to modify between the present ‘docked’ conduct that attaches Copilot to the facet of your desktop, and a brand new mode the place it acts like a standard software window which you’ll resize and transfer round your display screen,” Microsoft stated in its launch notes for the construct.
The brand new construct is a part of the Home windows 11 2024 Replace, which is due for normal launch in H2 2024.
